Voyages Extraordinaires

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jules Verne published Clovis Dardentor in 1896, and readers expecting another voyage extraordinaire will find themselves pleasantly disoriented. This is Verne in an unfamiliar mode: the satirist rather than the prophet, more interested in human folly...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. High above the forest floor, a mystery hangs in the canopy. Deep in the uncharted wilderness of Central Africa, an expedition of discovery turns into a desperate struggle for survival. Separated from their caravan and lost in the emerald gloom of the...

When a volcano suddenly seems to erupt and threaten a mountain town of North Carolina, Inspector Strock is sent to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at many times the top speed of the entrants, Strock is again consulted. And when an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible speeds off the New England coast, Stock and his boss begin to wonder if the incidents are related.

Invasion of the Sea was written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns—environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war.